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Letters to Clwydfardd, &c.

  • NLW MS 10909C.
  • File
  • 1887-1933

Holograph letters to David Griffith (Clwydfardd), Archdruid of Wales, the correspondents including John Evans, Pontypridd, 1894, John Thomas (Eifionydd), 1894, and T. H. Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn), 1892-1894; and holograph and autograph letters to Mrs [Sally] Chambers, Abergele, daughter of Clwydfardd, from Anna [Fison] Thomas (Morfydd Eryri), 1894, Francis Knollys (aft. 1st viscount Knollys), Meurig Lloyd Davies, Toronto, 1933, grandson of Clwydfardd, and others. The letters contain references to the Liverpool Welsh National Society; Moriah Calvinistic Methodist church literary society, Caernarvon; St David's Society of Toronto; and Clwydfardd's health, last illness and death, etc.

Griffith, David, 1800-1894

Papurau Clwydfardd

  • NLW MS 10910E.
  • File
  • 1872-1894

A group of poetry and miscellaneous papers from the collection of, and partly in the autograph, of David Griffith (Clwydfardd). They include englynon by Clwydfardd, e.g. 'Ar ymweliad ei rasusolaf Fawrhydi Tywysog Cymru an gwyl Genedlaethol yn Nghaernarfon Gorphenaf [1894]'; 'Ir diweddar barchedig Edward Anwyl Cadeirydd y Dalaith Ogleddol', etc.; englynion addressed to Clwydfardd by Richard Parry (Gwalchmai) and John Cadvan Davies (Cadvan) (1891); copies of the proclamations of meetings of Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain at national and provincial eisteddfodau; a letter, [c. 1891], from Clwydfardd to B. Morris Lewis, Chelsea, giving particulars of nineteenth century national and other eisteddfodau; notes on the key to 'Coelbren y Beirdd', etc., by T. H. Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn); incomplete notes on the Epistle to the Hebrews; and an incomplete eulogy of the writing pen, 1872.

Griffith, David, 1800-1894